Backup Winserver

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Tue Nov 4 04:59:28 PST 2008


On Tuesday 04 November 2008 06:43:23 am Roey D wrote:
> 2008/11/4 Graham Bentley <admin at cpcnw.co.uk>:
> > Is there anyone using Rsync on windows to backup to a Linux or
> > FreeBSD server?
> >
> > Are the Windows Rsync implementations reliable?
>
> I used to do that, the windows rsync client (runs on the top of
> cygwin) worked well for me.
> You can use this package:
> http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp
> which provides cygwin rsync plus GUI.
> The only issue I had is with files with non-latin characters in their
> names, in my case, Hebrew.
> Once I downloaded the Cygwin UTF-8 dll, which can be found here:
> http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/
> everything seemed to work.

I've done this as well without problem. Look for cwrsync if you don't want 
to bother installing Cygwin yourself. It comes with the rsync tools and 
ssh all ready to go.

JN



More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list